Daniel Schorr spent the few years immediately following World War II as a radio reporter in Western Europe. When legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow heard Schorr's reporting of devastating floods in Holland, he was recruited for a CBS News correspondent. Schorr received a series of high-profile assignments, including several years making himself a pain the ass at the White House under the administrations of Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson (who actually telephoned Schorr one night to call him a "prize son of a bitch".)

And then there was Nixon. Ultimately, the reporter's name wound up on Dick's infamous enemies list (where Chuck Colson ranked Schorr as #17). Of course, it didn't end there. In an effort to dig up some dirt, FBI agents were dispatched to pursue a background investigation, interviewing several of Schorr's friends under the false pretense that he had applied for a federal job.

In 1976 Schorr covered embarrassing American intelligence scandals, during which he somehow managed to secure a copy of a suppressed Congressional report on CIA assassinations (which he subsequently leaked to the Village Voice for a fee). His initial response to the ensuing outcry was to hint that colleague Lesley Stahl had actually leaked the document, but in the end he was dragged into a public hearing to reveal his anonymous source. Schorr insisted that "to betray a source would mean to dry up many future sources for many future reporters... It would mean betraying myself, my career and my life".

Author of books:Don't Get Sick in America (1970, nonfiction)Clearing the Air (1977, memoir)Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism (2001, memoir)Come to Think of It: Notes on the End of the Millennium (2007, essays)